This is an analysis of the poem The Fête Champêtre that begins with:

O WHA will to Saint Stephen's House,
To do our errands there, man?... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXXXX cbcbbdeX fbfbadaX gbgbedeX XbXbfdfX ababcdeX abcbXdXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11001101 0111011 11001101 11101011 10110111 1011010 111110101 01010101 10110101 1101101 11110111 11101011 11011101 1001010 101110111 11011 11110101 0111101 11001011010 1101011 01110001 1101010 11010101 01011 11011101 10111111 110111001 1111111 110100101 1111110 11110101 11011 110101001 0101111 110011101 1101011 01011001 1101010 0101111 01011 110011101 11001011 01000101 1101011 010010101 1101010 11011101 01111 11011101 1101011 11010101 1101111 11111101 10010010 11010111 01011
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 62
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, or, gies, them, she, ilk, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, ilk are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word tre at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Fête Champêtre;
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